All Integrated Yoga Studies instructors are graduate-level scholars and/or advanced yoga practitioners with specialized training, many of whom are faculty at CIIS teaching in a variety of departments. Some of our faculty include:

Laura Cornell, M.A., is founder and director of Peaceful Schools Project and a certified Kripalu Yoga teacher and yoga teacher mentor. Author of The Moon Salutation: Expression of the Feminine in Body, Psyche, Spirit, Laura maintains a private practice in yoga therapy in Berkeley.

Michael Reed Gach, Ph.D., founder of the Acupressure Institute in Berkeley, has used acupressure for more than 30 years. He is the originator of Acu-Yoga, combining yoga with acupressure for self-treatment. Michael is the author of Acupressure's Potent Points, Acupressure for Lovers, and Acu-Yoga.

Steven Goodman, Ph.D., is co-director of the Asian and Comparative Studies program at CIIS. He has taught and lectured widely on Buddhism, meditation, and Western psychology for the past 20 years. Steven is co-editor of Tibetan Buddhism: Reason and Revelation.

Teri Katz, PT, M.S., a Rosen Method bodywork practitioner, movement teacher, and senior training teacher, has taught embodied anatomy and the Rosen Method in the United States and abroad. She has 15 years' experience working with orthopedic and neurological disorders. She works privately with clients in Berkeley.

Robert McDermott, Ph.D., is president emeritus and professor of philosophy and religion at CIIS. His writings on Hinduism include: Radhakrishnan; The Spirit of Modern India, with V. S. Naravane; The Essential Aurobindo; Modern Hinduism: Gandhi and Aurobindo; an essay, "The Bhagavad Gita: A Bibliographic Mapping" (in Philosophy East and West); and Focus on Hinduism. He also wrote and co-produced a film on Sri Aurobindo, The Avatar: Concept and Example.

Richard Miller, Ph.D., has been an internationally respected teacher and workshop leader, psychologist, and writer for more than 30 years. Co-founder of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, Richard has published numerous articles related to the transformation and transcendence of body, mind, and spirit.

Silvia Nakkach, M.A., MMT, is a pioneer in the field of sound and transformation of consciousness, an award-winning composer, a therapist, and a specialist in cross-cultural music and sound therapy. She is the founding director of the Vox Mundi Project (www.voxmundiproject.com), an international school devoted to teaching and preserving indigenous musical traditions.

Sophia Reinders, Ph.D., MFT, is a Jungian-oriented psychotherapist in private practice in San Francisco and Marin, a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher, and faculty at CIIS. Sophia interweaves embodied awareness, movement, symbolic processes, and creative expression, to reawaken and strengthen the natural healing and balancing forces of psyche and body.

Jim Ryan, Ph.D., received his doctorate in South Asian Literature (Tamil) from the University of California at Berkeley. Jim's general interests are in the culture, history, and philosophies of India. He is specifically interested in various forms of Hindu tantra, particularly the traditions of Kashmir Shaiva, Sri Aurobindo, and Haridas Chaudhuri.

Bahman Shirazi, Ph.D., is Director of Graduate Studies and a faculty member at CIIS. Bahman's teaching interests include integral psychology, psychology of Sufism, and cross-cultural psychology. He is the author of the book chapter "Integral Psychology: The Metaphors and Processes of Personal Integration."

Stuart Sovatsky, Ph.D., a faculty member in CIIS's East-West Psychology program, is co-president of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology. He is the author of Eros, Consciousness, and Kundalini and Words from the Soul.

Anne Teich, Ph.D., is a Buddhist practitioner in the Burmese Theravada Forest Tradition. She is editor of Blooming in the Desert: Teachings of the Wildflower Monk; a contributing author in Buddhist Women on the Edge; and co-editor of Psycho-Ethical Aspects of Buddhism.